---
name: "Shyft"
mana_cost: "{4}{U}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Creature — Shapeshifter"
colors: []
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: []
set: "ME2"
set_name: "Masters Edition II"
collector_number: "66"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Richard Thomas"
oracle_id: "40c3007a-be6c-4400-9139-12b9ca098ac4"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/shyft-me2"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Shyft
- **Mana Cost:** `{4}{U}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Creature — Shapeshifter

## Oracle Text
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Shapesharer](/printing/shapesharer-lrw.md) — Creature — Shapeshifter
2. [Shapeshifter](/printing/shapeshifter-me4.md) — Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
3. [Quickchange](/printing/quickchange-rav.md) — Instant
4. [Unstable Shapeshifter](/printing/unstable-shapeshifter-tmp.md) — Creature — Shapeshifter
5. [Greater Morphling](/printing/greater-morphling-unh.md) — Creature — Shapeshifter
6. [Cryptoplasm](/printing/cryptoplasm-mbs.md) — Creature — Shapeshifter

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Masters Edition II (ME2) #66
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Richard Thomas

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2008-10-01)* Shyft’s ability won’t let you make it colorless. Colorless is not a color.
- *(2008-10-01)* The ability’s effect has no duration. Shyft will remain the chosen color or colors until the game ends, it leaves the battlefield, or some other effect (such as the next time its ability resolves) changes its colors.